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ASIC ramps up action against SMSF auditors

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2026
ASIC has stepped up enforcement against self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditors, acting against 64 practitioners during the 2025-26 financial year amid concerns over compliance and professional standards across the sector. The corporate regulator ...

Advisers lean on AQF7 to meet education standards: Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2026
... The Graduate Diploma (AQF 8) is the most common highest qualification, held by 35% of advisers. Of all advisers on the register, 13% sat below AQF 7, and 2% had no mapped formal qualification. Within that group, licensees reported 1967 advisers on the ...

Trump slugs Australia with new 'forced-labour' tariffs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2026
... and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labour," according to a Federal Register notice. Australia will cop a 12.5% tariff, alongside countries such as New Zealand, the Philippines, Oman, Russia, Colombia ...

FSCP bans adviser over client advice failures

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
... to impose registration sanctions under the Corporations Act. Its decision has been published on ASIC's FSCP Outcomes Register.

Prime Value licence suspended over reporting failures

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
ASIC has suspended the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of Prime Value Asset Management after the fund manager failure to meet its statutory audit and financial reporting obligations for two consecutive financial years. The corporate regulator ...

ASIC cancels AFSL of Australian Fiduciaries

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2026
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of Queensland-based Australian Fiduciaries, which is currently in liquidation. This follows Australian Fiduciaries' inability to pay the amount determined by the Australian Financial ...

ASIC levy estimates jump 19% as regulator ramps up funding

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2026
ASIC has lifted its estimated industry funding levy by almost 20% for 2025-26, with regulated entities expected to shoulder $400.5 million in regulatory costs as the corporate watchdog expands its supervision and enforcement activities. The regulator's ...

Start-ups carve out confirms tax reforms are 'flawed': WAM

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2026
Wilson Asset Management (WAM) believes the recent capital gains tax (CGT) reform carve out for small businesses and start-ups confirmed the change is not correctly executed for its initial intention. In its submission to a Treasury consultation, WAM ...

ASIC cancels Trive Financial's AFSL as review into CFDs continues

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2026
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of contracts for difference (CFD) issuer Trive Financial Services Australia, after determining the company was no longer carrying on a financial services business in Australia. The ...

ASIC consolidates compliance rules for platforms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2026
... requirements under the Corporations Act. ASIC Instrument 2023/669 provided relief to operators of IDPSs from the requirement to register the IDPS as a managed investment scheme, and the financial product disclosure, hawking and fundraising provisions ...
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